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17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

perspective on the pandemic and it impacts. The April 20 webinar was the club’s first, and featured Dr. Talia Varley, the physician lead of Advisory Services at Cleveland... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Burden Park | About

studied the developing airline industry at MIT and was an aviation business analyst until the early 1940s. His impact on HBS began in 1942 when he partnered with Dean Donald K. David to establish the HBS Research Program on Aviation; he... View Details

30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art

by his business experience and prior service as board chair of both the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and The Hague Municipal Museum. “As a private museum, we... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

Lovell began a career in telecommunications. He also coauthored Lost Moon, a book that inspired the movie Apollo 13, starring Tom Hanks and directed by Ron Howard. Lovell now serves on several space-related View Details

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01 Oct 1996
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No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

before being asked to head the company's bankruptcy department in 1987. In 1991, she was granted responsibility for the high-yield department as well, and in 1992 became the first female employee elected to the Bear Stearns View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and... View Details

22 Jul 2015
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Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs

Gould. “The issue being that if you don’t have women executives, you’re not going to have the right candidates to move to boards.” In 2012, the United Kingdom implemented a mandatory “comply or explain” system through the UK Corporate View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Goldman Sachs; Reuters; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

Profile

Catherine Neale

into construction management, dealing with subcontractors, inspectors, materials and utilities." In her final year with the organization, Catherine served as liaison for the executive director, managing View Details

01 Jan 2003
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James E. Burke, MBA 1949

beholden to the CEO," Burke says. Not only should an independent board and lead director govern companies, he advises, but business executives also need to "recreate a trust... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

member of the Academy of Management, has served on numerous editorial boards of academic journals, and is a past associate editor of Administrative Science Quarterly . Pushkala Prasad Skidmore College... View Details

01 Jun 2003
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John Read

With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools

01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises

its own idiosyncratic preferences. The CEO controls the company culture. One key, I think, is to listen broadly, with an open mind. The board of directors is an important sounding board, but the CEO is in a position to gather View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2003
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Books

firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research. As universities opened their... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change

performance of workers. To promote change across the manufacturing sector, Esquel sponsors an annual forum, the Integral Conversation, which brings together industry and government stakeholders to inspire... View Details

23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

03 Feb 2011
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Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

which we take collaboration to the level of megacommunities from the private and public sectors working together to solve large-scale social problems." Others, including Jay Somasundaram, wonder about the relative roles of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

FemTech space,” says HBSWANY board member Heather Myers (MBA 1992). “And many of them are in finance and health industries.” Avestria was launched in 2019 to seize the “huge opportunities to focus on women... View Details